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List Price: $14.99 | | Label: Buena Vista Home Entertainment / Hollywood Pictures
Salesrank: 1257
Released: August 24, 1999 |
| Our Price: $6.99 |
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MPAA Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Media: DVD |
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Editorial Review:
Acclaimed star Richard Dreyfuss gives the performance of a lifetime (1995 Academy Award(R)-nominee, Best Actor -- MR. HOLLAND'S OPUS) in this uplifting hit cheered by audiences everywhere! Glenn Holland (Dreyfuss) is a passionate musician who dreams of composing one truly memorable piece of music. But reality intrudes when he reluctantly accepts a "day job" as a high school music teacher to support his family. In time, however, Mr. Holland realizes that his real passion is teaching, and his legacy is the generations of young people he inspires. Also featuring Glenne Headly (BREAKFAST OF CHAMPIONS) and Olympia Dukakis (MAFIA!) -- you're sure to find this electrifying motion picture both entertaining ... and unforgettable!
Description of Mr. Holland's Opus:
An earnest and at times overblown story of a music teacher's impact on those around him, Mr. Holland's Opus is at times a genuinely touching drama in the vein of It's a Wonderful Life. Richard Dreyfuss (Jaws, Close Encounters of the Third Kind) plays an aspiring composer and musician who takes a job teaching music at a local high school to save money while he composes his music. But when his wife (Glenne Headley) becomes pregnant, Glenn Holland must put aside his dreams and address the everyday realities of his life, from the melancholy and sometimes tragic fates of his students to the discovery that the son he cherishes is deaf. Building to a highly emotional climax in which the teacher sees the impact he's had on the world around him, Mr. Holland's Opus is a showcase for a fine Oscar-nominated performance by Dreyfuss and an engaging, heartwarming story. --Robert Lane
Mr. Holland's Opus Reviews:
Flash back time !! 
2009-11-17 - I liked this movie cause of the flash back in time from the 60's to the 90's I like the movie because Mr Holland tried to teach the kid to enjoy music !
Favorite Movie
2009-11-10 - This movie quickly became a family hit. It also instills a love of music in a child's heart.
Mr Holland's Opus
2009-11-02 - One of the best movies, ever! People of all ages should watch it at least once...this is my second copy and I'll watch it again!
Fail. 
2009-09-28 - The good: some of the acting.
The bad: everything else. Especially the titular musical work. Hordes of composition students could've hit this one out of the park, and would've done it for free, but instead they paid gobs of cash to Michael Kamen, who decided to suck. Seriously, the "Opus" he wrote as Mr. Holland's proxy, should have come in a white can w/ black letters reading "music." In other words, generic as can be. If I spent my whole life working on that piece of trash, like Holland supposedly did, I'd stab myself in the eye with my conductor's baton.
Mr. Holland's Opus
2009-09-12 - I bought this video to use in a Career & Life Planning class. The students enjoyed it which surprised them because of the age of the movie. It is a very good story. It demonstrates the passion one can have for a profession in spite of the fact he hated the job at the beginning.
